Curse

uberstu · Apr 30, 2006, 06:51 PM // 18:51

I use an assassin w/ the "star strike" special skill that the dragon gives you at the beginning of the mission. The henchies I bring are healer/prot/2 fighters/vile/domination/earth/and assassin.

I do not know if this is possible with other professions. Star Strike is key.

1. Grab star strike skill from dragon and proceed to cutscene

2. After cutscene, approach shiro just enough so that he gets
within your aggro bubble and he runs down the stairs to you.

3. At this time, one of his buddies spawns right on top of you
just as he's meeting you at the bottom of the stairs. Active
star strike and rip into his buddy.

Star strike summons 6 lvl20 minions to aid you, and it
recharges everytime you kill one of his buddies.

4. When his buddy dies, activate star strike again and you'll
quickly accummulate a large mass of minions helping you rip
into him.

5. Continue to rip into him until he dies. You may need to kill
another of his buddies if they spawn and reactivate star strike.

Here's the deal though. This method still only works about 50% of the time once you've got the hang of it. And i've noticed that if i dont get enough momentum to bring him down in 2:30min it probably wont work. The fast powerful slam with the minions is crucial.

Lemme know if anyone else has had similar success. I've beat him probably a dozen times now using this method.

julienp · May 01, 2006, 04:09 PM // 16:09

Thank you, that worked nicely

Deathwingg00 · May 02, 2006, 01:11 AM // 01:11

It worked perfectly, just everyone remember to mass attack shiro when he's using his meditation skill.

tONYY · May 02, 2006, 01:53 AM // 01:53

lol Rachtoc(spelling?) will solo that mission in a couple of week ^____^

Dahl · May 03, 2006, 08:37 AM // 08:37

when i use the star skill, i only get maybe 1 minion.. whats up with that? i cant do it like that.

Linkusmax · May 03, 2006, 08:41 AM // 08:41

cool, you can do the same with an ele warder. Ward against Foes -> Ward Against Melee -> agro as above -> activate celestial storm on his minion (usually hitting him as well) -> Activate Celestial Storm again -> obsidian flame spam

fb2000 · May 03, 2006, 09:43 AM // 09:43

it works equally easy and nice with a warrior. just make ur henchies gang up on Shiro, activate ur elite. when shiro teleports some of ur party and replaces him with his spirit, the spirit lasts VERY LIL and u get a boost for ur skill, so u can use it again. at least with me it worked that way.

cant remember time tho, think it was 1.58 or so

Ixliam · May 03, 2006, 01:53 PM // 13:53

It is pretty easy with a warrior, as my fastest time is 1:10 and I average about 1:40 with henchies. Doing the way I have done it, I've never lost and barely get hurt. Skill wise, bring Wild Blow. I also bring the elite Shove, which knocks him down. Any stance-breaking skill should work just as well. Get the special skill (flying swords) from the dragon, and then take the 2 warrior henchies, 2 necro henchies, and 2 mesmerer henchies, and then the earth elementalists (they cast Ward against Melee).

You just spam Wild Blow, Shove, and the dragon skill. When I get to him, I wild blow, shove, then hit the dagger (if its not already timed out). With all the henchies surrounding him, the dagger thing does massive damage, and wild blow and shove break all his stances and keep him down and not moving much. The mesmerer's will hit him with all kinds of downgrading effects, and the necros will raise flesh golems from the dead henchies and hit him with degrading effects as well. The warriors just beat on him or fire off the dragon skill, and the earth ele will cast ward against melee and hit him as well.

I've been popping into the area to help players out as I have burned through him about 15x so far, and I have found this setup to be foolproof. To take another player I usually just kick the ele out and replace them with a player.

MelechRic · May 11, 2006, 05:23 AM // 05:23

Did it on my necro with henchies tonight and found that the necro elite hex: Spoil Victor is devestating to Shiro. This hex does 53 damage to the attacker if they are attacking a foe that's got less health than they do.

Guess what? Shiro has way more hp than any level 20.

I just spammed this spell like mad on him (since he's got the 50% hex duration helm) and at some point he got in the middle of the mob of henchies. He did some sort of attack that hit everyone twice and BAM! I saw a line of 53's half way across the screen and good ol' Shiro was taking a dirt nap.

Very fun!

EDIT: Forgot to post that I'm 2 for 2 on beating Shiro this way. While it's not a huge statistical sample, it's still means I can go to armor/weapon crafter any time I like now.

Racthoh · May 11, 2006, 07:58 AM // 07:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by tONYY

lol Rachtoc(spelling?) will solo that mission in a couple of week ^____^

Got him to around half health, then meditation destroys me.

Sab · May 11, 2006, 08:06 AM // 08:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Racthoh

Got him to around half health, then meditation destroys me.

Hmm...bring some health buffs?

Therlun · May 11, 2006, 08:26 AM // 08:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by MelechRic

I just spammed this spell like mad on him (since he's got the 50% hex duration helm) and at some point he got in the middle of the mob of henchies. He did some sort of attack that hit everyone twice and BAM! I saw a line of 53's half way across the screen and good ol' Shiro was taking a dirt nap.

I like that one.

beanerman_99 · May 11, 2006, 02:03 PM // 14:03

Is it me or does it seem like his difficulty changes from time to time when you enter this mission?

Had a group of 8 and he killed all of us 4 times straight. on the 5th try we did the exact same thing we were doing before and killed him in about 2 minutes. Soon after, my guildmates wanted me to help cause they said he was owning them. I join and we go in and killed him in under a minute. Weird.

What does his Meditation skill do exactly and why mass attack him when he is Meditating? When I attack him like this all I see are 0 dmg numbers popping up?

As an ele, I didn't see any Greens at the end that I particularly needed or were worth getting. Instead I sold my Amulet of Mist for 90k so I can get a 15k armor. Did I miss something? Are there any great greens for a Fire Ele?

Eclair · May 11, 2006, 02:35 PM // 14:35

You can echo your dragon skills.

Echo->Celestial Storm, Celestial storm, kills the summoned guy, recharge, Celestial Storm, Celestial Storm.

4x celestial storm's within 20 seconds XD

beanerman_99 · May 11, 2006, 03:52 PM // 15:52

Does Echo work? hmmm I didn't try Echo but I know my Glyph of Renewal did not work when I tried it. The skill stayed dormant until I could kill on of his minions.

dustbunny · May 11, 2006, 04:23 PM // 16:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by beanerman_99

What does his Meditation skill do exactly and why mass attack him when he is Meditating? When I attack him like this all I see are 0 dmg numbers popping up?

I don't have the exact number, but the concept of Meditation of the Reaper is like this. Once he activates the skill, Shiro absrobs all damage dealt to him. It ends either after 30 seconds or until he absorbs 500 damage. When Meditation ends, it will deal 20 damage for every second that the skill was active to every party member. So if you let it run the full 30 seconds, chances are everyone will die when the skill ends. This is why you need to unload everything on him when he activates this skill, to get it to end quickly with 500 points of damage dealt to him.

You can echo the skill that the dragon gives you.

beanerman_99 · May 11, 2006, 05:03 PM // 17:03

I see..that makes more sense to me now. thanks for clearing that up for me

Racthoh · May 11, 2006, 08:43 PM // 20:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by LuxA

Hmm...bring some health buffs?

The main problem isn't the damage, it's the fact that it's health stealing. If you let it run the full 30 seconds, that's 600 health from each member of the party right back to Shiro. And if you're attempting to solo, that's another 600 from Mhenlo putting him back to full.

MelechRic · May 11, 2006, 09:00 PM // 21:00

I was with a group today that didn't get this concept down. They let him go the full thrity seconds. I was on my blood nec and managed to do around 400 damage to him (shortly after having been rez'd) but it wasn't enough. The whole team got hit for 620! Needless to say it was over at that point.

The thing about Spoil Victor is that it works the best with henchies. They mob old Shiro like crazy and so when he hits them he does massive damage to himself. Most PuG members will run away from Shiro thus lessening the damage of Spoil Victor.

Food for thought.

P.S. I'm got unlucky today with the henchies when Shiro banished both hench monks. Sadly they didn't know to run back to the top of the hill to get back into the fight.

Sab · May 11, 2006, 09:59 PM // 21:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Racthoh

The main problem isn't the damage, it's the fact that it's health stealing. If you let it run the full 30 seconds, that's 600 health from each member of the party right back to Shiro. And if you're attempting to solo, that's another 600 from Mhenlo putting him back to full.

Ugh...Mhenlo...is there anything he doesn't screw up?

Do KDs knock him out of meditation? I haven't had the opportunity to try this yet, but it sounds plausible.